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SPP's Western Expansion Set for Implementation on April 1

LCG, March 13, 2026--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) announced yesterday that leaders from the participating organizations voted unanimously to proceed as planned with expanding its regional transmission organization (RTO) services into the Western Interconnection. SPP sees the decision to proceed as planned as a strong signal of confidence as SPP and its partner utilities prepare for this key milestone, which will occur overnight between March 31 and April 1.

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Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

LCG, March 6, 2026--Entergy yesterday announced approximately $5 billion in total savings for 2.3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi resulting from data center customer agreements in those states. Entergy, which completed its first data center customer agreement in 2024, projects the customer savings over the next 20 years and after the regulatory approval or acknowledgement of the public service commissions in those states.

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Reliant Energy, Inc. has appointed Mark M. Jacobs executive vice president and chief financial officer of both Reliant Energy and Reliant Resources, Inc. Jacobs will resign from the Reliant Energy position upon the completion of the spin-off of Reliant Resources from Reliant Energy. Steve Naeve, who has served in the Reliant Enery role, will continue as vice chairman of Reliant Energy until the completion of the spin-off. Jacobs has served in an advisory position with Reliant, and has been a managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co.

PSEG Energy Resources & Trading has appointed Thomas P. Weeks Director-Midwest Marketing, making him responsible for developing energy marketing opportunities for PSEG Power's gas-fired cominbed-cycle electric generating facilities under construction in the Midwest. PSEG Energy Resources & Trading is a subsidiary of PSEG Power, the independent power producer. Weeks served as Senior Structured Products Originator and Risk Manager at DTE Energy Trading. He also served at DTE's Detroit Edison Company affiliate, and held the positions of Senior Business Analyst and financial Team Leader.

Ballard Power Systems announced that Dennis Campbell will serve as president and chief operating officer effective July, 22, 2002. Campbell will also become chief executive officer on March 31, 2003, succeeding Firoz Rasul, who will become Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Campbell has 30 years of experience in diverse manufacturing enterprises, and joins Ballard from Home Care Industries, where he was president and chief executive officer. He will apply his experience to Ballard's fuel cell and related businesses in the portable, stationary and transportation power markets.
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